Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise - Tavily

FDE Times; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Opportunity to work on impactful AI

International environment

Job summary

Nebius is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise for Tavily to design, prototype, and deploy production-grade AI systems for our largest customers in New York City.

You will own the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle, building RAG pipelines, agent workflows, and integrations while bridging product and field teams to shape the roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a customer-facing technical track record.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability with Python, APIs, and backend systems.
• Experience building with LLMs, RAG, agent architectures, and AI stacks.
• Proven ability to work with enterprise customers across discovery, POCs, and production rollout.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand AI use cases, architecture, success criteria, and deployment requirements.
• Lead technical discovery and solution design during pre-sales and expansion conversations.
• Scope, build, and deliver proofs of concept showing business and technical value.
• Design and implement production-ready integrations using Tavily’s API, including RAG pipelines and agent workflows.
• Partner with customer engineering, data, product, and AI teams to move use cases from prototype to production.
• Monitor API usage patterns and recommend improvements for reliability and latency.
• Translate recurring customer needs into clear product and roadmap input.
• Create reusable assets, reference architectures, deployment guides, and technical docs.
• Represent Tavily in architecture reviews and executive technical conversations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption and expansion.

Skills

Python

APIs

LLMs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Enterprise engagement

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description

About Nebius

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full‑stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in‑house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large‑scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

About Tavily

We're building the search engine for AI agents. Our API powers agentic applications and real‑time reasoning by connecting LLMs to high‑quality, trustworthy web content. We work with some of the most innovative teams in AI — from startups shaping the ecosystem to enterprises deploying AI at scale.

The Team

Forward Deployed Engineering owns how Tavily shows up technically in the field. The team sits at the intersection of customers, Product, Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success.

The Enterprise FDE motion focuses on Tavily’s highest‑value customers and strategic enterprise opportunities — from technical discovery and solution design through proof of concept, production rollout, adoption, and expansion.

The role

This is a full‑time, on‑site role based in our New York office.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise, you’ll work directly with Tavily’s largest and most strategic customers to design, prototype, and deploy production‑grade AI systems powered by Tavily’s API. You’ll own the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle, helping enterprise teams move from early use case exploration to deployed, scalable agentic applications.

You’ll be deeply hands‑on: building RAG pipelines, agent workflows, evaluation loops, reference architectures, and custom integrations alongside customer teams. You’ll also serve as a critical bridge between the field and our Product and Engineering teams, translating enterprise needs into roadmap signal.

Your responsibilities will include

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their AI use cases, technical architecture, success criteria, and deployment requirements.
• Lead technical discovery and solution design during pre‑sales and expansion conversations.
• Scope, build, and deliver proofs of concept that demonstrate clear business and technical value.
• Design and implement production‑ready integrations using Tavily’s API, including RAG pipelines, agent workflows, internal tools, and industry‑specific GenAI applications.
• Partner with customer engineering, data, product, and AI teams to move use cases from prototype to production.
• Monitor customer API usage patterns and recommend improvements to increase reliability, latency, coverage, and overall value.
• Translate recurring customer needs, blockers, and technical patterns into clear product and roadmap input.
• Create reusable enterprise assets, including reference architectures, integration templates, deployment guides, demo environments, and technical documentation.
• Represent Tavily in customer architecture reviews, executive technical conversations, implementation check‑ins, and post‑deployment reviews.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption, retention, and expansion across strategic accounts.

We expect you to have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a customer‑facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Technical Consultant.
• Strong hands‑on engineering ability, especially with Python, APIs, backend systems, and production software development.
• Experience building with LLMs, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, agent architectures, context engineering, and modern AI application stacks.
• Experience working with enterprise customers, including technical discovery, POCs, solution design, stakeholder management, and production rollout.
• Strong understanding of how enterprises evaluate, deploy, secure, and scale AI systems.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and executive stakeholders, including engineering leaders, product teams, AI teams, and technical decision‑makers.
• High autonomy, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast‑moving startup environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex technical concepts into clear recommendations.
• Based in New York City, or willing to relocate.

It will be an added bonus if you have

• Experience working with major agent or LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or CrewAI.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Qdrant, or similar systems.
• Experience with enterprise AI use cases in financial services, legal, consulting, enterprise SaaS, sales, marketing, or internal knowledge management.
• Track record helping large customers move from POC to production.
• Experience building internal tools, technical playbooks, demos, or reusable customer‑facing assets.
• Prior experience at a high‑growth AI infrastructure, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS company.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation packages. The actual compensation offered within the listed range will be determined based on job‑related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, and the level at which the candidate is hired, consistent with applicable law.

Pay Transparency

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job‑related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.

Base Compensation Range

$179,500—$224,300 USD

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

What's it like to work at Nebius

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.